We’re delighted to announce the second meeting of 2025 on 16th May 2025 – in the same new venue as last time

Institute of Advanced Studies Room G11 IAS Common Ground in South Wing

You may bring pictures back from 5pm. Wine arrives around 5pm. The picture draw will start around 6pm.

Please see further information on membership and meetings, and our art work collection

UCL Picture Club sale

The UCL Picture Club will be holding a sale in May 2025. You will be able to view pictures at the summer meeting on Friday 16th May, 5-7pm, Institute of Advanced Studies Room G11, Common Ground, South Wing, Wilkins Building WC1E 6BT. We will accept offers from when we share the catalogue up to the end of May 2025, if a picture is still available. We will mark the catalogue where items are sold.

We will supply an invoice when pictures are purchased and payment should be made by direct bank transfer. Any pictures purchased before the meeting can be collected on Friday 16th May or afterwards by arrangement.

The sale is being held to make more room as we have reached the limit in our current storage space, and we will use the funds to buy new works.

The pictures are all reasonably portable; there are no large pictures in the sale.

If you have any questions, or would like to make a purchase, get in touch with Liz Lawes (e.lawes@ucl.ac.uk), Zoe Forster (z.forster@ucl.ac.uk) or Katy Coyte (k.coyte@ucl.ac.uk).

UCL Picture Club was founded in 1960 by 15 academics from French and Engineering, each providing a 5 guinea start-up loan. Not knowing how to progress their idea of a “lending library” of pictures, they sought out help from Andrew Forge in the Slade, who became advisor to the new club for several years. He persuaded Slade staff to donate their work and to recommend students whose work the club might buy. The club still owns some works from this era, although over the years many have been sold to finance new purchases. One important painting by Lawrence Gowing was donated to the College Collection.

The Club owns about 170 works, comprising bold abstracts, delicate landscapes, portraits, screenprints, monotypes, etchings, oils, watercolours and photographs. New purchases are funded by members’ subscriptions and revenue from sales. Committee members regularly visit the Slade shows as well as those at other London art schools, art fairs such as the Affordable Art Fairs, the Royal Academy Summer Shows, and artists they have come to know, searching out a broad range of styles and media to suit, hopefully, all members’ tastes.

Artists currently represented include: current and former Slade staff and students such as Jo Volley, Susan Collins, Charlotte Cornish, Barto Dos Santos, Heidi König, Philip Sutton, Anita Klein, Peter Daglish, Anthony Gross and Paula Rego; others include Colin Kent, Donald Hamilton Fraser, Richard Bawden, Brendan Neiland, Sir Terry Frost, Mychael Barratt, Trevor Price, and Richard Bawden.